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Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood Live

The reunion for which intrepid rock fans had longed for forty years became reality when Eric Clapton joined Steve Winwood  at Madison Square Garden in February 2008...rewarded with muscular, time-tested versions of "Had to Cry Today","Presence of the Lord", and "Can't Find My Way Home" as well as some of the best of Traffic, Derek and the Dominos, and Clapton and Winwood solo catalogs! Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood guest here In the Studio.
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Traffic- John Barleycorn Must Die- Steve Winwood, the late Jim Capaldi

Traffic album in July 1970 "John Barleycorn Must Die" included former Spencer Davis Group teen prodigy singer/organist/guitarist Steve Winwood, reed man Chris Wood, and drummer Jim Capaldi. Steve Winwood & the late Jim Capaldi joined me In the Studio.
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Traffic- Low Spark of High Heeled Boys- Steve Winwood,the late Jim Capaldi

Not always considered a Progressive Rock band, nevertheless the title song to Traffic's most popular album, November 1971's "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" fits easily high atop any list of the most popular and creative songs of the Progressive Rock era..In my classic rock interview In the Studio prior to Jim Capaldi's death in 2005 from cancer, it is clearly evident how much Steve Winwood and Capaldi loved woodwind player ChrisWood, and each other. 

Steve Winwood – Why Can’t We Live Together?

Back in 1972 while working at my first radio station in Ohio, I got a lesson in soul music from Timmy Thomas and the single "Why Can't We Live Together?", and apparently an ocean away Steve Winwood, ex-Spencer Davis Group wunderkind, Traffic…